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Re: -fno-stack-protector


On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>  glibc follows the general redhat policy: only daemons that are networked are
>  built as PIEs with SSP.  that means only nscd is built as a PIE with SSP
>  enabled.  Hardened Gentoo takes a more extreme approach: build the entire
>  system as PIEs with SSP.

Has anyone written up a quantitative report on the benefits of
building the whole system PIE + SSP?

Cheers,
Carlos.


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